Investing Archive

According to many people, investing in the stock market carries very few differences from gambling your money away in Las Vegas. However, to those who invest in blue chip stocks, it is an entirely different …

Did you know that your mortgage is a closed end loan? What is a closed end loan, you ask? A closed end loan is a loan that has limitations because the money paid in cannot …

In the financial sense an investment is the purchase of a monetary asset that is expected to increase in value over time. When you buy stocks or bonds, place money in a managed index fund …

Whether you are investing in commercial real estate or residential real estate, there are many pitfalls and traps that you can fall into that will hurt the return on your investment. As such, you need …

Changing market conditions comes from different factors such as government actions and policies that stimulate the economy, current events that slow down market activities, changes in economic activity, and investor attitudes as well. General conditions …

For years, investors and traders have used options to achieve higher returns than regular stocks provide.  However, options could only be used effectively by a small number of investors due to the complicated nature of …

Every set of financial statements, from those of global corporations down to Mom and Dad enterprises, can quickly and easily divulge a set of key statistics which will allow you to analyze the organization’s profitability, …

Is The Future Of Real Estate Investment In Megapolitan Areas? Experts believe that real estate development and building will produce some $25 trillion in revenue between now and the year 2030. Most also agree that …

It’s no secret that the real estate market is loaded with distressed properties, foreclosures, and REOs. In fact, if you pick up any newspaper in any US city, you will read doom and gloom news …

1. Don’t buy underlyings. Underlyings are treacherous, nasty little things that will changes prices just to annoy you. That may sound a little paranoid, and perhaps it is. However, whether or not companies have some …

As many investors rush to jump onto the bandwagon of Albania being perhaps the latest hot property investment opportunity, developers are flooding the Albanian market with off plan properties. Enterprising developers bought up huge tracts …

Real estate investment offers numerous ways in which you can obtain a return on your investment.  Cash flow from rents, appreciation of the property value, and depreciation for tax purposes should all be included in …

Up until 2008, many areas experienced a housing market boom. House price had risen steadily (and sometimes astronomically) for as long as most of us could remember. A couple of consequences of this were that …

Fun With Wills I wrote my will last night. Didn’t quite finish it, but came close. I am not ill or feeling particularly morose. I simply have been putting it off for ages and finally …

Here are 10 tips to improve your chances for success with covered call writing: Tip #1: No earnings release dates before option expiration Stocks are extra volatile just before and after an earnings release date. …

Understanding IRA investment options includes understanding the distribution rules.  If you make the wrong decisions after the investment is made, you can seriously affect the benefits of the investment. The key to understanding the IRS rules on …

Question 1 Who in the world uses the most oil?Question 2 Where do the oil users get the oil from? If you answered, 1) “The western countries”, and 2) “The Middle East”, you would be …

Generally, a typical real estate contract will include terms that specify reimbursement to the buyer or seller, should one default from the business agreement. Without this provision, should the buyer of said real estate fall …

There are some stones you must overturn before investing in tax deeds. These stones once discovered and overturned will lead you down a path of successful tax deed investing. While a novel would need to …

There are a number of things you must do before trading in stock. Learn to trade, before you place your money into the market, would be my first suggestion. It isn’t enough to just make …

After watching the devastation on TV this week, as hard as it is to watch, we know that after the cleanup, life will go on. This applies to Japan and Charlie Sheen. The death toll …

Starting a business can be tough, but starting a business to help fund other start-up business may be a lot tougher. Angel Investing is attractive because many people correlate lucrative initial public offerings (IPO) as …

When reading Warren Buffet’s partnership writings to his partners, from his original partnership, you will notice many ideas that are very interesting. What is captivating about his writings to his investors is that these memos …

A good investment strategy rests on the correct allocation of your wealth into various investments. One of these investments is the stock market.  For the average person it is generally recommended that the strategy includes …

Fixed Return Options In binary options trading, fixed return options offer many investors a safer way to invest in the stock market than conventional stock investing. The benefit to the investor of making a purchase …

The Dow Jones Industrial Average top performing stocks When one investor asks another how the market is doing, chances are they are asking what the Dow Jones Industrial Average is doing. This list of 30 …

The real estate market is cyclical.  As such, you should adapt your investment strategy for each real estate market that may arise.  You strategy for a “seller’s” real estate market should be different from your …

Interest rates and forecasts of their future value are important inputs into an investment decision. Following the lowered interested rates by the Federal Reserve, new financial institutions emerged and competed with the existing lending institutions …

In recent years it has become increasingly difficult for first time buyers to get onto the first rung of the property ladder, as house prices have continued to rise. Many have stretched themselves too far …

Real Estate is a business that investors are constantly using cash flow investing.  Cash flow investor seeks out rental property that will provide rental payments that are more than the property’s expenses. Positive cash flow …